Memorial Plaque for Soviet Prisoners of War

The memorial plaque, which was temporarily removed due to construction work, located near the station Steindorf in Straßwalchen, commemorates the Wehrmacht prisoner-of-war camp in which 300 to 400 soldiers of the Red Army were interned. The soldiers captured during the "Russia campaign" lived in this so-called "Russenlager" under the most difficult conditions. A few prisoners were selected to assist the guard units in overseeing the camp, which led to tensions among the inmates. Only a few days before the liberation of Straßwalchen by US troops on 4 May 1945, the guards fled, resulting in violent clashes between prisoners and the auxiliary guards, some of which ended in death. However, the establishment, structure, and dissolution of the prisoner-of-war camp have not yet been fully researched.